Quotes About Expression

An artist, when sketching, looks at a landscape and then a sketch pad, repeating the process until an image appears, depicting, but not duplicating, what's there. Landscape and sketch pad guide the artist's hand, but no two artists will sketch the scene in just the same way.

These are my confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it is because I have nothing to say.

Zischeln is a useful German verb meaning "to whisper angrily.

Schimpf-los

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Disco sucks? You never heard that from me.

I never felt Irish. I always felt, 'I'm English, this is where I come from, and that's that.' Because you'd be reminded of that when you went to Ireland: 'Ye're not Oirish!' the locals would say. So it was like, 'Bloody hell, shot by both sides here.' I still love that Magazine song – so relevant to me, those lyrics.

Love 'em. Kool & the Gang, love 'em. What more can I say?

striving to replace it to some extent by this image. This is what the painter does, and the poet, the speculative

The preservation of morale itself became an aim. For if morale faltered, all else might as well. So free speech trembled.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

You find your lead, you build your structure, you are now free to write.

The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Art is a process, not a product.